Evangelicals Push Immigration Path

By

Miriam Jordan

April 8, 2013 10:38 p.m. ET

IRVINE, Calif.—Senior pastor Kenton Beshore said the first sermons on the plight of illegal immigrants didn't go over well with many members of his evangelical church, which sits on a 50-acre campus in Orange County and has a 3,400-seat sanctuary, sports facilities, restaurant and a man-made lake.

"We took a hit on it," said Mr. Beshore. "We had people who walked out and whose giving went away." It was part of the...